The problem is also non-existent in the suburbs around cities. Which are actually the best places to drive an electric car.

99% of the people have their own laneway, they live far enough away that public transit is really long and walking/cycling is impossible/difficult. But they also live a
A quick google search has between 60-80% of the US population living in suburbs. So, the problem you cite, which I agree is a real problem, is not a problem for most of the population.

Same person who said this:

Also said this:

Determining a hypothesis to be stupid "at the gate" before really examining it, to save you from spending "100% of your time tracking down ridiculous shit", is a bias.

It's possible to determine it to be stupid, without bias, but only after examining it.

As far as your definitive proof...

That's not definitive proof of dark matter. That's definitive proof that the stuff that we can see doesn't move in ways that we would expect. We observed stuff moving in an unexpected way, and then someone thought, 'you know, it's almost as if more sources of gravity are out there that we can't see'. And sure, this theory matches all indirect observations... but that's not surprising because we started with only having these indirect observations. You can't prove something with its own definition.

I know it's so painfully obvious to you that it's real. But it's also painfully obvious to a religious zealot that God is real too. Until definitive proof exists, try to have an open mind.

And just to be real clear - I believe it exists. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm just advocating keeping an open mind because we don't have definitive proof yet.

Can't say much about that stuff, especially considering that you don't have much luck with voice commands.

I was really worried about the lack of central instrument cluster behind the steering wheel before I bought the car, I even found an aftermarket HUD that I could purchase to deal with that. But after driving it, I found that what would be in the central instrument cluster, was closer to my forward view than the rear view mirror was. And since I'm used to checking my rear view mirror every 10 seconds or so, I found I have no issues with the lack of display.

But that's just me.

I thought you were going to complain about stuff that you can control using the tactile wheel buttons, like:
- track selection
- music channel selection
- music volume
- pause/mute/unpause/unmute music
- activate voice command
- adjust cruise control speed
- adjust follow distance (only for those with autopilot or enhanced cruise control)

And I know you don't have much luck with voice commands, but you can actually open the glove box, and turn on/off the front/rear defrost with this feature. I've had issues with voice commands with other cars too, but I find the Model 3 picks up what I'm saying without issues. It seems like it does some sort of intelligent analysis of what you say.

But you can (and will) get the kind of car you love... I'm just trying to clear up any misconceptions you might have.

The lights and wipers CAN be set to auto, but you can also manually trigger the wipers using a button on the turn signal lever. High beams/low beams can be turned on/off with the other lever.

Besides seat heaters and climate controls, which you're right, you can access using voice control, what other functions do you wish the Model 3 had tactile controls for?

If Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc. banned people like this, another social media platform would pop up that will capitalize on their apparent need to spread their beliefs without censorship (I'm looking at you Parler, though even this platform still censors).

The solution is not to censor, the solution is to inoculate the general population from believing misinformation.

To do this, we need massive education in critical thinking skills so that fewer and fewer people are tricked by this manipulation. Critical Thinking should be a core subject in schools. I'll be honest, though, I'm not sure how to educate the adults.

I see a lot of families with one big vehicle that they use for everything including vacations and carting the kids to sports. If they need a second vehicle because both parents drive to work, it's mainly for commuting so they pick something optimized for fuel efficiency and these tend to be small.

But that could just be in my area.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I accept your take and the fact that many people probably feel the same way.

For me, in my Model 3, I spend most of the time looking out the windows, not at the interior. And when I am looking at interior it's at the display. Whether or not the rest of the interior is ugly or not makes no difference - to me.

I suspect owners of cars with "beautiful" interiors only really look at them while they're picking out the car.

Missing mass is the explanation that fits with the currently accepted theory.

I'd love to hear this definitive proof, because if definitive proof existed, no scientist that is an expert in the field would destroy their career proposing a new explanation for the evidence such as theoretical cosmologists Constantinos Skordis and Tom Zosnik of the Czech Academy of Sciences did - as pointed out in the article. That'd be like at this point in time a scientist proposing new theories of how to turn lead into gold.

And for clarification... I personally side with scientific consensus when it comes down to it, because I'm not an expert in the field. But at the same time, I support the scientific process, which means experts in the field being open to new theories if they have merit. Not shooting them down just because they are "weird". So my personal response to any new theory is, sounds cool, but I'll keep believing scientific consensus until that changes - and if it does, I'll be the first to switch what I believe.

I think you miss the point of this article - the hypothetical of IF gravity was a force. So, stating what current theory holds true is off-topic. From the first sentence of TFA:

Also, it's not my hypothesis. My point is to be fully open minded to whatever the observational evidence and experimental data point towards which, (I think?), we agree on. Not simply because one theory is more bizarre than another.

The fact is, the evidence shows there's something missing with our current gravity theory. We assume it's matter we can't see. Which is possible, but not definitive until we have found actual examples of dark matter (experimental data). So, until we have something definitive, let's keep an open mind.

That idea of gravity both attracting and repelling is only weird because we haven't observed other forces behaving similarly. But we have no real reason to think that gravity should behave the same as the other forces.

Let's not let our biases of what we consider weird be what discounts a theory. The evidence should be what rules it out.

The solution is education in critical thinking skills.

We put it in the school system as a core subject, study logical fallacies, cognitive biases, even go through mock scenarios on how to spot them. This counters the spread of misinformation for all new and younger generations.

For the older generations, critical thinking skills would help too, but I'm at a loss on how to educate those out of the education system. Maybe it could be spread online as "one simple trick that doctors don't want you to know"?

If I could change the world, I'd have everyone become experts in critical thinking skills. Being able to spot logical fallacies and cognitive biases.

So, if I may add a suggestion for dimensions for you to consider, it could be along the lines of, being able to recognize logical fallacies or being able to recognize their own cognitive biases. You could even go further, and make it more granular with specific fallacies - being able to recognize 'tu quoque' or 'appeal to emotion', or 'ad hominem', or for biases, being able to spot the 'backfire effect' and so on.

It's those people who are poor with their critical thinking skills that are tricked by conspiracy theories or propaganda. Knowing a person's skills in this area could tell you a lot about whether or not they are likely spewing misinformation. And having this as a scoring metric could motivate people to improve their skills in this area.

But, this is your thing, not mine, so take it or leave it! :)

The 47 years of oil figure is calculated by taking the world proven oil reserves and dividing it by the world consumption rate. So other continent's use of oil, no matter how it's being used, is factored into the figure.

So Asia's, India's, and South America's need to reduce their oil burning, while true, only makes the fact that America needs to reduce theirs even stronger.

It's like we're in a train heading toward a broken bridge in the fog, and we only have control over some of the brakes.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and British Petroleum's Statistical Review of World Energy, we have 47 years of oil left. That's within many of our lifetimes, and if not yours then definitely your children/grandchildren.

Imagine what running out of oil would do to the economy?

Yes, this is only proven oil reserves. But we can't rely on actually finding more, and even if we do find more, that's just delaying the inevitable - fossil fuels are going to run out.

So, we need to transition off of fossil fuels, and the sooner we start that transition, the easier it'll be on the economy.

sources:
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
https://www.eia.gov/
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html

I like where you're going with this. Multidimensional seems to better match the social dynamic that happens IRL.

Only consideration that comes to mind is the risk of creating echo chambers if we are able to so accurately curate the kinds of comments we wish to receive. It's already a problem on the net with less sophisticated algorithms leading to greater and greater division. Hell, it's even a problem with biased news media when we can simply choose the media that gives us a message we know we'll agree with.

I like your idea in general though, its got legs.